Camille henrot s primitive thinking anna watkins fisher conversation avec camille henrot camille henrot in conversation mathieu copeland iconographie des. A highly provocative, mindbending, beautifully designed, and visionary look at the landscape of our rapidly evolving digital era. In 20, her work was included in the 55th venice biennale, where she was awarded the silver lion, and she had solo shows at the new orleans museum of art, usa, and slought foundation, philadelphia, usa. Her work includes video installation, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage. In this way, camille henrot s work questions mental resistances and the pasts resonance. See 11 heady books transformed into ikebana flower. Camille henrot adapts ikebana traditional japanese flower arrangements created according to specific codes using a heterodox method, transforming them into conversations with literature, as each arrangement is conceived in dialogue with a book from the artists library. A riff on where we come from and where we are going, camille henrot s the pale fox is part creation myth, part eschatology. Camille henrot egyptomania my method of working envisages art as a form of personal anthropology in which therelationship between the general. She uses the symbolism of ikebana arrangements to describe books shes. Born in 1978, camille henrot lives and works in new york. It shows connections between a pack of stray dogs, a stream of tourists, archaeological excavations in saqqara, the world famous site of the first pyramid, and the movement of a woman sorting trash in a cairo shantytown.
Camille henrot born 1978 is a french artist who lives and works in paris and new york biography. In installations, drawings, frescoes, and videos like her rollicking grosse fatigue. Odile decq, camille henrot, perspectives hardcover jan 01, 2010 lionel lemire. The age of earthquakes by douglas coupland, hans ulrich. The result of two exhibitions in paris, this splendid overview covers camille.
An artist and a poet consider failure the new york times. Abstract this books is published on the occasion of camille henrot s exhibitions is it possible to be a revolutionary and like flowers. Elephant child is a book about camille henrot s 201415 exhibition the pale fox. This film was shot in egypt on super 8 film stock and digital video and is difficult to date. Op onze informatiepaginas lees je waar je in deze periode op moet letten. The programs focus is on interdisciplinary, conceptoriented and spacebased approaches in a variety of media including sculpture, video, sound, painting, printmaking, photography and performance. Camille henrot, the frenchborn, new york citybased contemporary artist, will be celebrated in an australianfirst survey of works that take a playful and inventive approach to addressing lifes big questions, in may 2020. Camille henrot is a french artist based in new york, usa. It shows connections between a pack of stray dogs, a stream of tourists, archaeological excavations in saqqara, the world famous site of the first pyramid, and the movement.
Egyptomania camille henrot, france 2009, slideshow dvd loop, 25. Originated during an artist research fellowship at the smithsonian institution, which laid the groundwork for her 20 video grosse fatigue and the subsequent installation the pale fox 201415, elephant. Camille henrot born 1978 is a french artist who lives and works in paris and new york. More or less neutral and clear, assembling references to both high and low culture, the pictures compose a kind of mental landscape, a fantasy ancient egypt. Coins from everywhere and all times are glued on the heads side on various engravings of which subject is egyptian countryside. The startingpoint is a book on algerian prehistory that was stolen in may 1968 from the library at jussieu, and subsequently purchased on ebay. Until now, she has done so from the position that frances art world reserves for its nonmilitant female artists, which is to say the most uncomfortable one. Originated during an artist research fellowship at the smithsonian institution, which laid the groundwork for her 20 video grosse fatigue and the subsequent installation the pale fox 201415, elephant child represents the culmination of a longterm inquiry into the human effort to make the universe comprehensible. Camille henrot, venice biennales silver lion award winner. Edvard munch award nam june paik award silver lion awardgrosse fatigue camille henrot born 1978 is a french artist who lives and works in new york. This catalogue coincides with her exhibition at the new museum which provid. This survival of the past, full of misunderstandings, shifts and projections as shown in the slideshow egyptomania, the film cynopolis, drawings of the sphinx, and even in the photographs of prehistoric flints troubles cultural codes and conventions. Odile decq, camille henrot, perspectives lionel lemire on. Camille henrot i have a somewhat conflictual relation with paris because its my hometown, and its where my parents and family live, the place where i grew up.
This catalogue coincides with her exhibition at the new museum which provides a survey of her recent work. Egyptomania demonstrates the variation on the theme, by either formal or symbolic associations, through a group of byproducts. Based around an outofprint anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by archaeological expeditions in algeria, french artist camille henrots latest project treats this ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. Camille henrot with images land art, sculpture, paris art. Was regelmatig je handen en blijf op voldoende afstand van anderen. The information overload of the online experience is brought to life in camille henrot s the pale fox, where objects bought from ebay sit alongside museum loans, comic strips and educational posters, in an exhibition that celebrates insatiable and obsessive curiosity. An interview with camille henrot by jason farago, even. When i was a child, i was pretty inseparable from the place.
Very much like grosse fatigue, henrot s extraordinary video from the 20 venice biennale, it explores humans attempts to understand the universe, and it marvels at the. Elephant child, was published in 2016 by inventory press and koenig books. For the french artist camille henrot, the discipline of anthropology, despite all its baggage, offers an essential tool to parse todays world, wider than ever but not nearly as advanced as we think. She is based in new york and her work includes video. Camille henrot born 1978 is a french artist who lives and works in new york. The book contains an original text by henrot written with clara meister and michael connor, documentation, sketches, and research materials. Two uv prints on both sides of one sheet of white nitrile rubber, the work can be installed either flat or loosely and carefully folded on the wall, a table or the floor, with two grommets in the top corners of the rubber, printed by laumont, new york, 22 x 30 x 18, ca. The frenchamerican fund for contemporary art and consulate general of france in new orleans. Le langage des fleurs the language of flowers cecilia alemani a savage mind.
By translating books into flower arrangements in a single gesture, the aim is. Collections prehistoriques originated with my obsession with collecting and exchanging objects. Camille henrots days are dogs and the erasure of the meaning of difference. Ultimately, the book is an object of high universalist ambition. Cities of ys is organized by the new orleans museum of art. Elephant child is a natural extension of the artistic practice of new yorkbased french artist camille henrot. Henrot attended the ecole nationale superieure des arts decoratifs where she studied film animation and soon after helped assist pierre huyghe who worked in advertising and making music videos. Camille henrot channels japanese zen gardens with an installation of floral odes to her favorite books see 11 heady books transformed into ikebana flower displays.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Art paintings camille henrot, the black book, lawrence durrell serie flower petals. For several years now, french artist camille henrot has been exploring the multiplication of the illusion of power versus the actual control that is contained in the way we look at the world. The slideshow egyptomania is an attempt to answer this question by offering a nonexhaustive visual anthropology, compiling pictures of various objects on sale on ebay during the year 2009. The result of two exhibitions in paris, this splendid overview covers camille henrots oeuvre between 200520. Camille henrots practice combines anthropological research with a staggering range of cultural fragments reflective of the current digital age.
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